Speaker 1: All right, it's Mojoe in the Morning Show. This is
Speaker 1: a really cool situation. And I told Shannon, this is
Speaker 1: like reminding me of that whole Will Ferrell Mark Wahlberg
Speaker 1: movie where it was his stepdad's or.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 3: Jone. I love.
Speaker 4: There's two of them. Yeah, I love those movies.
Speaker 1: There's this Wes is stepping up because Smith, his step son,
Speaker 1: is playing football and the coach quit at the last minute.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 5: So Smith's playing flag football, which is so fun to watch,
Speaker 5: by the way, it's like my favorite thing to watch
Speaker 5: that he does. And they've had his little team has
Speaker 5: had the same coach for the last three or four
Speaker 5: years maybe, and that coach is phenomenal, but he couldn't
Speaker 5: do it this season because I think he's coaching baseball
Speaker 5: and he's like swamped with doing that. And so the
Speaker 5: organizer of this flag football league was like, we need
Speaker 5: a coach for this team of second graders, and nobody volunteered.
Speaker 5: Then I looked at West. I'm like, dude, you coach track.
Speaker 5: You love coaching, and He's like, I'm I'm doing it.
Speaker 5: So Coach Wes is now Coach Wes of the second
Speaker 5: grade flag football Seaers.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you how much I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that because I know how much Wes loves
Speaker 1: to coach. But I love that because I know how
Speaker 1: great the relationship is that Wes has with Smith.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be fun to watch it.
Speaker 2: Is Smith excited about it?
Speaker 4: Smith's excited?
Speaker 2: The Smith like look.
Speaker 1: At it as an opportunity that he's gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of playing time or what does he think?
Speaker 4: Wes is not like that? Wes.
Speaker 5: Wes is so fair because I see him coach. I'm
Speaker 5: going to tell Wes some Samantha, and I saw him
Speaker 5: coach Kieran, his son, and he does he pulls.
Speaker 1: Can I no favoritism? Can I tell you something? I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you, Wes. If you're listening, Wes, I
Speaker 1: want to tell you this. And I'll call him and
Speaker 1: tell him this too. A very good friend of mine,
Speaker 1: John b Line, you know John John Beelyin became friends
Speaker 1: of mine. John was the coaching versus at Michigan. He
Speaker 1: works for the Pistons now he's back at Michigan. I
Speaker 1: was having a conversation one time with him and Tim McCormick,
Speaker 1: who played at Michigan, and Tim McCormick coached Kellen, his
Speaker 1: son all the year.
Speaker 2: It's a long story, but.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, one of the biggest regrets I always
Speaker 1: had as a coach was that I don't think that
Speaker 1: I was really good to my kids. I was almost
Speaker 1: not fair in their disadvantage. And Coach b Line said,
Speaker 1: when you step up to coach your kids' teams, you
Speaker 1: get the added value since you're not getting paid of
Speaker 1: you can take care of your kids. And he actually
Speaker 1: believed that it's your opportunity to give your kid a
Speaker 1: little bit of special treatment. So the whole idea of
Speaker 1: your kid always playing shortstop or pitching when you are
Speaker 1: the coach, So make sure that he doesn't do it
Speaker 1: the opposite way of being too fair. But also what
Speaker 1: you know what Smith deserves it. Wes is putting the
Speaker 1: time in. Smith deserves that, and it's his payment for
Speaker 1: doing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and he is such a different step dad than
Speaker 4: he is dad.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4: He just parent differently, Like he's in.
Speaker 1: A good way softer, he's way softer.
Speaker 2: Do his kids ever comment on that?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh yeah, how.
Speaker 2: Was the previous coach, Like what kind of coach?
Speaker 5: Graz honest to God, such a great I think because
Speaker 5: he's a he's a coach as well. Like I said
Speaker 5: to the coaches baseball, he is a middle school teacher, I think.
Speaker 4: So he was phenomenal. And his son is still on the.
Speaker 6: Team because some dads, so they aren't like coaches, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, they just step up.
Speaker 5: They just going to have like a playbook difference, which
Speaker 5: this other coach did too.
Speaker 4: Like it's very it was very organized. I was impressed.
Speaker 2: Exciting. Was Smith excited when found out?
Speaker 5: Yes, Smith's excited. The season doesn't start for a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I I love this. I also we were
Speaker 1: having this conversation, uh, yesterday on the air for a
Speaker 1: little bit, but then we talked more off the air,
Speaker 1: all of us did about your vacation that you guys
Speaker 1: just recently took, and just how cool it was to
Speaker 1: see your kids and Wes's daughter just really come together
Speaker 1: and become not step brothers or stepsister and you know,
Speaker 1: and with stepbrother and stuff.
Speaker 2: It was like they were like siblings. They were really
Speaker 2: good with each other.
Speaker 5: That's cool, which they've always they've always yeah, see them amazing,
Speaker 5: they've always like all gotten along. But the age difference is,
Speaker 5: like we knew from the get go, we weren't going
Speaker 5: to try to force anybody to be dusties. Like it's
Speaker 5: an eight year old, Lucy's gonna be twelve next week.
Speaker 4: Holy cow?
Speaker 5: An eight year old, a twelve year old, and an
Speaker 5: almost seventeen year old, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 5: the age differences, They're all just doing their own thing.
Speaker 1: Can I Can I say something real quick that I
Speaker 1: think is more important than you know, West being a
Speaker 1: great step dad.
Speaker 2: It's fourth down and.
Speaker 4: Five, Oh my god, I don't know you are asking
Speaker 4: me is.
Speaker 2: Gonna Is he gonna kick the field goal? Take the points?
Speaker 2: Or you're going to ruin our entire season?
Speaker 1: And by going forward on every fourth down, that's all
Speaker 1: I care about it.
Speaker 2: I don't want any craziness.
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell this year doesn't start kicking field goals, Guys.
Speaker 1: I am personally going on a mission to make sure
Speaker 1: that Dan Campbell doesn't get to have a choice on
Speaker 1: that anymore.
Speaker 2: Iron West, But when he.
Speaker 6: Doesn't kick the field goals and it goes our way,
Speaker 6: everyone wants to praise, Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't go our way. As much as it goes,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go our. It screws us off where I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like we're all done. So do
Speaker 1: you step up now?
Speaker 2: Shannon?
Speaker 6: As like you had your mom rode, but now you
Speaker 6: coach his wife.
Speaker 4: I'm just sitting in my chair and sheer as loud
Speaker 4: as I.
Speaker 6: Do you need to bring them orange?
Speaker 2: You gotta step up, dude.
Speaker 5: If I brought orange slices, those kids would be like
Speaker 5: what you gotta have? Like the snacks now, different ballgames?
Speaker 2: What's these days?
Speaker 5: I mean, you gotta have you gotta have some options.
Speaker 5: There's a snack and a drink.
Speaker 4: It's not just like.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that since Wes is doing this now
Speaker 1: you have to like step up a little bit more,
Speaker 1: not with the team, but step up yourself like you
Speaker 1: have to. You know, like anything Wes wants is West
Speaker 1: should get Like this is actually a big deal.
Speaker 5: I think for him to say yes to this, he
Speaker 5: very quickly said, I'm down.
Speaker 4: I'm in.
Speaker 1: He's showing you that that how much he loves your
Speaker 1: kid by doing this thing.
Speaker 2: You better like and West. I don't know. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you guys are have your fun.
Speaker 1: You talk all the time, Shannon about all the craziness
Speaker 1: you guys have with each other, but this will be
Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to really show him. Coaches gift
Speaker 1: at the end of the year needs to be a
Speaker 1: good gift.
Speaker 2: Talk about tight end. I ever tell you the coaches
Speaker 2: gift that I.
Speaker 1: Got one year picture of all the moms.
Speaker 2: They gave me a picture of all the moms be
Speaker 2: the greatest.
Speaker 4: So I already tell you, guys, it's really weird.
Speaker 2: I have to tell you.
Speaker 1: Guys, in all fairness, one of the funniest stories ever
Speaker 1: of coaching. So we were having a conversation once with
Speaker 1: one of Joe's basketball coaches that he had, and I
Speaker 1: asked him a question. I said, so, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, what is your deciding factor when you're picking team, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you decide? Like, if you have a kid
Speaker 1: that's really really talented, but you have too many big
Speaker 1: guys and you need some smaller guys, what do you do?
Speaker 2: And he goes. Honestly, I said, yeah, he goes, I
Speaker 2: look at the moms and he goes.
Speaker 1: He goes, I look at the moms and I try
Speaker 1: to decide, all right, who's got the hottest mom? Because
Speaker 1: you're going to see the moms as much as you're
Speaker 1: going to see the kid, And honestly, that is wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's wrong.
Speaker 6: I guarantee you there are some dads listening at probably
Speaker 6: have show favoritism based on the mom.
Speaker 1: Absolutely you should have seen remembered hot dad or the coach,
Speaker 1: the hot coach that we had Chelsea's Brandon. Yeah, Chelsea,
Speaker 1: and you know all the other moms that were there.
Speaker 4: Didn't we interview him on the air?
Speaker 2: Oh, we talked about him on the air. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was a dad.
Speaker 1: He was a coach that coached Luke and baseball. All
Speaker 1: the moms had the hots form. They all thought that
Speaker 1: he was he was a hotty, so we used to
Speaker 1: call him hot Coach. What's going on? Actually, we used
Speaker 1: to send him out with the scorecard at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the game, so he had to walk up to
Speaker 1: home plate to the umpire. So all the moms from
Speaker 1: the other team so cracked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what you're doing? What's up, Matt? How you doing?
Speaker 7: Hey? What's going on?
Speaker 3: So I am a step parent as well, and I
Speaker 3: coach my stepson's baseball team. Now, the crazy part is
Speaker 3: we don't get along very well with my wife's ex husband,
Speaker 3: So I feel like we I am under the scrutiny
Speaker 3: all the time of being watched, being judged, comments and
Speaker 3: everything that goes.
Speaker 7: Back to my stepson. It's like, why do you do this?
Speaker 7: Why do you do that? And it is a nightmare sometimes,
Speaker 7: but I would not trade it for the world because
Speaker 7: I feel like I have a huge impact on all.
Speaker 8: Of these kids and it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: But but to be fair honest with you, he's a
Speaker 1: dickhead for doing that, right you think.
Speaker 7: I mean, you said it, not me.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's crazy that he's like why did he
Speaker 2: do this? Why did he do that? You know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Jealous?
Speaker 3: I mean there's there's times where like I'll schedule a
Speaker 3: practice and he's with his dad and his dad like
Speaker 3: we're not going to practice, and I'm like, it's a
Speaker 3: mandatory practice. You need to show up, like, and I'm
Speaker 3: there because I love the kids. But it's like, come on, dude,
Speaker 3: get with the program. It's not about you. It's about
Speaker 3: the kid at this point, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Stop taking your hate, take stop taking your hatred.
Speaker 7: For me out on him. Come to practice for X,
Speaker 7: Y or Z.
Speaker 1: Do you if if if your step kid has like
Speaker 1: a really amazing game. Do you give him a huge
Speaker 1: hug and look over and this dands and go fu.
Speaker 3: You know, there's times, because I coach stored base there's
Speaker 3: times when he does something and I will just kind
Speaker 3: of give him that little glance and say.
Speaker 7: Ha, I did it. I will tell you.
Speaker 1: This, Yeah, go ahead, No, I will say this that
Speaker 1: it would be really hard for me, as a dad
Speaker 1: of three boys if I was divorced from Chelsea and
Speaker 1: her you know, new husband was coaching my kid. But
Speaker 1: I would step up and say I want to help out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, instead of sitting there and
Speaker 1: complaining about it.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, yeah, because that's exactly what I did.
Speaker 3: Because my son's team originally didn't have a baseball coach,
Speaker 3: and my my.
Speaker 1: Stepdad always the guy that has to step up, that
Speaker 1: jack ass needs to step.
Speaker 2: Up, right.
Speaker 3: So I'll tell you this. In our household, so we're
Speaker 3: a blended family of six, so I have two to
Speaker 3: a previous, she has three to a previous, and we
Speaker 3: have one together. So the only steps we consider in
Speaker 3: our house, so there are steps that go upstairs and
Speaker 3: downstairs in our house.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I love this guy.
Speaker 3: Kind we kind of we kind of left it up
Speaker 3: to our to our son to say, well, if you
Speaker 3: want me to coach, I'll coach. If you don't, if
Speaker 3: you want me to sit in the stands in cheer,
Speaker 3: I'll sit in the stands in cheer. Whatever you want.
Speaker 3: So we left it up to him and he's like, no,
Speaker 3: will you coach? I'm like, are you sure this is
Speaker 3: what you want? And he says yeah, So I did it,
Speaker 3: and now I'm in my fourth season Real Quick.
Speaker 7: I would trade it for the world.
Speaker 1: Coach, Matt, I want you to say hi to coach Wes,
Speaker 1: who's on the phone.
Speaker 7: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2: You guys think I'm nice? This is actually payback? This
Speaker 2: is this is not me being a good stick.
Speaker 6: Wait wait, well, so Shannon, when we were in Mexico,
Speaker 6: happened at the airport.
Speaker 2: Begas Claim.
Speaker 7: Do you remember it?
Speaker 2: Vegas Claim lined me up and kicked me in the
Speaker 2: next Oh yeah, drop why.
Speaker 6: And so the next day this coaching opportunity came up.
Speaker 2: And I have been around the block a couple of
Speaker 2: times in my kids. This is going to be up down.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. That's the best hold on real Quick. Amanda
Speaker 1: is also on our party line here may comment. What'd
Speaker 1: you want to say, Amanda?
Speaker 3: So Shannon as a you know, special little thank you
Speaker 3: so much for doing this.
Speaker 1: For we lost, Yeah, we lost you as a special
Speaker 1: thing for doing this for Smith.
Speaker 2: What did you want to say? Get off?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can you hear me say it again? Say what happened?
Speaker 7: Shanna needs to get a referee costume with a whistle
Speaker 7: and do a little special section.
Speaker 8: You know what.
Speaker 4: The league supplies their own referees.
Speaker 2: In the bedroom, in the Are you crazy?
Speaker 4: Are you crazy?
Speaker 2: What do you think about that? Matt? Coach? Matt, you
Speaker 2: like that idea?
Speaker 3: So I'll tell you this. My wife has At first
Speaker 3: she didn't want to embrace the coach's wife role. But
Speaker 3: now she's fully involved. She's in my dugout, doing my.
Speaker 7: She's writing my line up down on the board for me.
Speaker 7: I mean, she's fully fully.
Speaker 3: Involved in it.
Speaker 2: Absolute, she will.
Speaker 3: Say, She will say sometimes when I mean, because when
Speaker 3: I when I'm there on the field, I'm coached. When
Speaker 3: I get into the car, I take my hat off.
Speaker 7: That's it. I'm no longer coached.
Speaker 3: I'm dad.
Speaker 8: And when bullet it, well, my son has has an issue.
Speaker 8: He was like, man, my coach was this or that
Speaker 8: today and she's like, don't worry, I'll have a talk
Speaker 8: with your coach tonight.
Speaker 6: It's just crazy, Wes, be honest, what are your expectations
Speaker 6: for Shannon this season?
Speaker 7: Better be hid.
Speaker 4: High? You know, every play practicing on the lawn.
Speaker 1: She's going to be the center, Wes is going to
Speaker 1: be the quarterback, and they'll never be in the shotgun.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: I love it. Hey, good job both you guys, Wes
Speaker 1: and Matt. Way to way, way to be a good guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys already are good guys, but way
Speaker 1: to step up for these kids.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.